<p>@Dbate - Yale is stereotypically considered more "relaxed" and easygoing, Harvard more up tight (e.g. conservative). Politically they're both very liberal.</p>
<p>When people say that a school is liberal, does it mean that the school intentionally promotes liberal ideals and opinions? Like if I am blessed to get accepted to either, will there be alot of pro-choice and gay rights demonstrations? I hope not.</p>
<p>"I find this silly, but to each his own. <3"</p>
<p>It's just as silly as a liberal person not applying to evangelical-type schools. I wouldn't fault them at all. I fail to see how this is silly at all.</p>
<p>@dbate</p>
<p>um. there won't be rallies or demonstrations because it is assumed that everyone (or nearly everyone) is pro-choice and supports equal rights for homosexuals. That's not to say there's a contemptuous feeling for people who are disagree, but you won't just fit right in.</p>
<p>Well I will be a science major, so I doubt any discussions of that nature will really come up. I do think that the whole liberal/conservative thing is only important in politics, I mean in real life would someone actually not talk to someone bc they had different ideological views?</p>
<p>Well...I plan to be a part of any pro-choice demonstrations that take place, so...can't really objectively answer you there. =P</p>
<p>Prestige and location, really.</p>
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<p>the saying "where fun goes to die" is associated with UChicago, not Harvard.</p>
<p>To the person who said we go hard in harvard....that's what she said...</p>
<p>Squaregirl, not to offend you but I don't understand how anyone can justify killing innocent children. I don't want to start a discussion about it bc we have different opinions and won't agree, but I just can not understand. I know that a woman in that situation has a difficult choice, but the child is always innocent.
Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>Dbate, irrelevant. Please, let us not even go there.</p>
<p>When I hear someone say something like "I don't understand how someone could possibly believe (insert view held by many sane people)," I lose a lot of respect for them. We don't know each other so this doesn't matter but saying something like that makes you sound really closed-minded and possibly arrogant, regardless of the subject.</p>
<p>Please...stop. Take it to PM or whatever.</p>
<p>^Agreed. </p>
<p>As for me, I find the atmosphere of opportunity without spoonfeeding to be inspiring. Its attitude towards students--that you can get anything you want, but we won't give it to you--jives with me better than Yale's.</p>
<p>My cousin has said that it's a better/larger focus scene for science/math concentrations (although she was vague in everything, so meh), and as others have sad, Cambridge > New Haven.</p>
<p>This is totally off-topic, but i do harbor contemptuous feelings for whoever that denounces/criminalizes homosexuality and denies homosexuals of the right to happiness like any other straight person. If that topic comes up, i'll try to convince you, but if i still can't then i wont talk to ya... lolz </p>
<p>No comment on abortion. </p>
<p>I prefer Yale's laissez-faire atmosphere. Harvard seems a tad too cut throat competitive and serious. Like someone wrote in another thread, Harvard is like Obama (as in industrious & focused on the goal), and Yale is like Bill Clinton (as in talented but all over the place, happy-go-lucky & fun-loving) - even though that was technically about law schools but i feel the analogies still apply.</p>
<p>Well, Dbate, I completely disagree. And we'll leave it at that. =P</p>
<p>And I prefer to think of Harvard as FDR, myself. :) Yale doesn't deserve the Bush legacy, but honestly, when I think of Yale...it does come up. Even though my girl Hillary did law there. ;)</p>
<p>A lot of people have been bringing up Harvard's math/science programs, but what about the Humanities scene? I'm much more interested in English, history, philosophy, sociology, etc...any insights? :)</p>